Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-04-09
WILL BIZ THERE.
01HEHAL J. \. JOHNSTON TO ArrEaD
fHg sMIrHFrsLD CELEBRATIONS.
4 Myssery Cleared Up The North Carolina
Bureau Of Labor statistics-
The Late Frost.


RALrIcH, N. c., April S.--Yesterda,
Ne committee in charge received let
ter from General Joseph T.. Johnston
in which he stated that he would be Al
Smithfeld May 10th, when the monu
ment TO the memory Of the Confederat,
soldiers who fell at the battle OF Ben
tcnville will be unveiled. Genera
Johnston says he will not be able b
deliver an ADDRESS, as requested, rs hi
business engagements will not give him
time to prepare suitable address.
Senator Vance will deliver the address.
For some days the death OF j. II.
Perkins, OF Fremont Wayne county,
has been mysterious as to the cause.
1t has been found that he committed
suicide.
A report from the Baptist Orphan
Asylum is that fifty-s six children are
low present, and that in thirty days
the number is TO be increased TO eighty
Captain John A. Watson, promi-
nent citizen of Fayetteville, died last
night
A corps Of surveyors il at work re-
dueipg the sharpness of curves and de-
cressing the grades on the Western
North Carolina railway.
THE BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS.
This new bureau is meeting with
gratifying success thus far in its collec-
ton OF statistical information in regard
to its department of public interests.
The information is furnished readily in
reply to inquiries by the bureau. Mr..
Jones, the head of the bureau, is show
ing good Judgment in the matter of de-
tails.
MINING INTERESTS.
A gentleman prominently connected
with mining IN this State said to-day
that in no department of progress was
North Carolina moving on faster than
in this. While there is no boom in the
Alabama sense, there is a steady adj
vance, and all the we'll mines
are doing well. There smoothing ephe.
neral about the matter, either, and the
handsome returns of large proportion
Of the mines attract new capital all the
while Millions OF New England and
western capital are invested in all sorts
of mines from Warren county to the
Tennessee line.
NEWS NOTES.
Mr.. Julian s. Carr, in some respects
the most liberal man and cheerful giver
in the State, has given $40, 900 towards
the new endowment of Trinity Col
lege.
Ii is understood that the new Meth |
odist church here, the largest in the |
State, is to be dedicated about the mid
die of May.
BY the LIST Of May $50 convicts viii |
be at work on the Carthage railway,
and It's completion by October LIST is
assured.
There came near being q serious
hitch after all in the election on the
graded-school question at Durham.
The opponents of the measure fought
it desperately. The town commission
ers purged the observation-disclosures after
the election and threw out I83 names.
This left the number of registered
voters 764. and as 40 votes were cast
for the school tax the majority of oil
the registered votes was So. The com
missioners had good presidents for
their action.
Next month an refractory is to be
built at Durham, making seven such
factories in the State.
Reports from the Wilmington section
say that truck there suffered less from
the cold snap than did that in the
and Savannah sections.
This is good news. The damage to
fruit in that particular locality is not
so great as was feared, and not to COM
pare with that inflicted in the Newberne
and Goldsboro' sections.
Along the sides Of the mountains in
several of the western counties is what
is known as the thermal belt, or line of
no frost. Along this belt, all reports
state, not the slightest damage has been
inflicted upon the peaches despite the
rold weather.
A good deal of excellent work has
been done at the State experiment
Isrm, and it is now very inviting place
10 visit The farm is to be transferred
Irom the Agricultural Department to
the Agricultural and Mechanical Col
ege as soon IS the latter is in operation.
It is but a few hundred yards from the
site of the college. In segment of a
circle, and in sight Of one another, will
De the insane asylum, penitentiary,
oricultursl college, State fairgrounds. |
10 -N while in front OF
'hd experiment. Im..,
hem Is the deaf, dumb, and blinu asy- !
um. 1t will be q notable collection of !
when the agricultural college I
s completed.
MILITARY.
II it be possible to arrange for an en- 6
OF the State troops this sum- l
ner, one will be held. The number of
roops at this date is trihe over /, 100. !
Messrs. Primrose, Fries, and Dab t
ley, who are making an extensive tour {
n search of information concerning {
gricultural and mechanical colleges, I
Srite that they are greatly pleased at O
What they have seen. They are now in
he West All are men OF quick percep-
ions and with the deepest interest in 1
be matter they have in hand. They G
viii soon return and lay the results OF {
heir observations before the trustees |
Il the college. e